Grow Your Love Muscle, with Dan Harris!

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

An adrenaline-fueled war reporter, self-medicated with cocaine. The panic attack on live TV that brought him to meditation. This is a RAW & REVEALING look into how Dan Harris (10% Happier author & podcaster) struggled behind his polished on-screen persona. What's a better way to celebrate MBB's 200TH EPISODE?!!! Dan reveals how his reporting from the frontlines of Iraq led to self-medicating his depression with recreational drugs, and how meditation was the ultimate game-changer. THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY CAN'T MEDITATE! Learn the practical skills to happiness, how to detach from your narrative through metacognition, and create a buffer between stimulus and reaction. Mayim shares her personal struggles with meditation and gets practical tips from Dan that could change your perception of meditation forever. Plus, dive into different forms of meditation that enhance concentration, gratitude, and how a lovingkindness meditation practice can reshape your day-to-day life. Dan also explains how meditation caused him to shift his perception of himself and in relation to others, what our goals with meditation should be, and what his lovingkindness meditation practice looks like today. Curious about MDMA's therapeutic potential for emotional awareness, adrenaline addiction, or what a coke-fueled panic looks like from the inside? This episode is your front-row seat to a MIND-BLOWING conversation that could very well be the nudge you need to start your own meditation journey. TUNE IN to help us celebrate 200 episodes of MBB with Dan Harris!

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0:00.0	Meditation does not require you to clear your mind or to stop thinking or to stop
0:08.8	being distracted. That's impossible as I like to, unless you're enlightened or you have died.
0:14.8	What we're doing in meditation instead is focusing the mind just for a few seconds,
0:18.9	actually a few nanoseconds really, at a time, usually on something simple like the feeling of your breath coming in and going out
0:25.2	And then every time you get distracted which will happen a million times
0:29.7	You just start again and again and again and again and again and this is like a bicep curl for your brain.
0:35.9	And people think when they see how distractible they are that they are uniquely dysfunctional.
0:42.0	But actually the seeing of the distraction is proof that you're meditating
0:45.4	correctly. Why? Because the whole point of this exercise is to get familiar with how
0:50.8	fucking crazy you are, with how wild your mind is so that it doesn't own you as much. That's mindfulness.
0:58.0	It's my and bialix breakdown she's gonna break it down for you because you know she G
1:02.8	Bialik's break down, she's gonna break it down for you
1:04.1	because you know she knows a thing or two.
1:07.3	And now she's gonna break down, so break down,
1:10.4	she's gonna break it down.
1:14.0	Hi, I'm Bialik. And I'm Jonathan Cohen.
1:15.0	And welcome to our breakdown.
1:16.0	This is the place where we break things down so you don't have to.
1:19.0	Today, we've got someone who is so good at breaking down meditation and making us 10%
1:24.8	happier. We're going to be talking to Dan Harris, author of 10% happier.
1:29.7	He's an author, podcaster, an entrepreneur. He's reported from all over the planet. He's an author, podcaster, an entrepreneur.
1:32.8	He's reported from all over the planet.
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